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When they returned home, she made her fire and put the fish to cook, and towards evening many of the Indians were assembled in the wigwam of the war-chief, and partook of the fish he had caught in the morning. Each wants to be the greatest god of the Dahcotahs, and they have had many battles. My father was a great medicine man; he was killed many years ago, and his spirit wandered about the earth.
Mr. , missionary among the Dahcotahs, with the assistance of an Indian named Round Wind, collected the bodies and buried them. Of the fourteen persons who were in the three teepees, no more than four escaped; two young men and two women. The Chippeways fled as quickly as possible from the country of the Dahcotahs, with their prisoner sad change for her.
As he knew he had not the power to contend with his enemies, he determined to have recourse to stratagem. When it was quite dark he commenced hooting like an owl, having previously transformed himself into one. The Chippeways looked up towards the tree and asked the owl what he was doing there. The owl replied that he had come to see a large war party of Dahcotahs who would soon pass by.
The missionaries feel that they have accomplished something, and they are encouraged to hope for still more. They have induced many of the Dahcotahs to be more temperate; and although few, comparatively, attend worship at the several stations, yet of those few some exhibit hopeful signs of conversion. There are five mission stations among the Dahcotahs; at "Lac qui parle," on the St.
There had recently been a fight near the spot where they were, and the Dahcotahs were seeking the bodies of their friends who had been slain, that they might take them home to bury them. They moved noiselessly along, for their enemies were near.
It is said to have been given by the old French traders, that the Dahcotahs might not know when they were the subjects of conversation. The exact meaning of the word has never been ascertained. Dahcotah means a confederacy. A number of bands live near each other on terms of friendship, their customs and laws being the same.
But yesterday the Dahcotahs and Chippeways, foes from time immemorial, feasted and danced together, for there was peace between them. They had promised to bury the hatchet; the Chippeways danced near the fort, and the Dahcotahs presented them with blankets and pipes, guns and powder, and all that the savage deems valuable.
Hole in the Day, however, gave up two of his men, as hostages to be kept at Fort Snelling until the murderers should be given up. The Dahcotahs, being obliged for the time to defer the hope of revenge, returned to their village to bury their dead. We rarely consider the Indian as a member of a family we associate him with the tomahawk and scalping-knife.
The commanding officer of the garrison notifies the two bands, on such occasions, that no hostilities will be permitted; so there is rarely an occurrence to disturb their peace. But now it is impossible to restrain the excited passions of the Dahcotahs. Capt.
She knew the direction in which the Dahcotahs who had left the party had encamped, and she directed her steps to find them. One would think she would have asked death from her enemies her husband loved her no more, her children were dead but she clung to life. She reached the teepees at last, and hastened to tell of her sorrows, and of the treachery of Hole-in-the-Day.
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